Spring-brace for vehicles



(No Model.)

S. R. BERGEN.

v SPRING BRAOE FOR VEHIGLB S. No.276,213. Pa,tented Apr.24,l883.

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UNITED STATES SAMUEL R. BERGEN,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF GANTRIL, IOWA.

SPRING-BRACE F-OR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,213, dated April 24, 1883.

Application filed January 23, 1863. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. BERGEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gantril, in the county of Van Buren and State of Iowa, have invented certain new andusefnl Improvementsin Spring-BracesforVehicles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention pertains to an improvement in spring-braces for vehicles, having particularly for its object to prevent end pitch or endwise movement of the body and springs; and it consists of a vertical sliding central bar and bracing-rods secured to the springs and connecting with the central bar, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view, partly broken away and partly in section, of a vehicle minus its wheels, with my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the axles and reach, showing the guideeye on the reach, through which the sliding bar passes. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of Fig.1, and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a vehicle-body, A, which is mounted, as usual, upon the end elliptic springs, B, secured upon the axles 0, connected together by the reach D in the ordinary manner.

E is a vertical (preferably cylindrical) bar,

with its upper end passed through and nutted into the floor of the body A, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, the nut and screw-thread hein g shown in Fig. 4. The lower portion of the rod E passes through a guide-eye, a, bolted at one side of, the reach D, its extreme lower end passing through a collar, 1), of the convergent ends of the oblique bracing-rods F F, said 001- lar being nutted thereon, and the distant ends of said braces or rods being bolted to the springs B, thesaid ends of braces being made straight and screw-threaded and nutted. This disposition of parts, while preventing end pitch or endwise movement of the body and springs, allows the descent of the central sliding rod, which secures the bracing-rods themselves as against endwise movement to any point of depression, according to the compression of the springs under the weight of the load carried by-the body, its movement not being limited by a forked or bail-shaped lower end, as has heretofore been the case.

1 claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- SAMUEL R. v BERGEN.

Witnesses:

ADREN G. DRAY, MARTIN SAAR. 

